I hadn’t been fishing much lately so that’s why I haven’t posted much. But I had gotten out some the last week a couple times so wanted to share an update. The last week or so there seems to have been a lot of tarpon that have moved into the backcountry. We hadn’t really had a strong consistent push of fish yet this summer but it looks like we may be getting it now and hopefully they’ll stick around for September and October. I had my dad out the other day and we weren’t tarpon fishing we were looking for big snook, but we did happen to hook a couple tarpon while fishing for those. We also saw quite a few jumping around and doing there thing so I figured it would probably be pretty good. We were able to whack the mullet too and I will say at least for now the bait is plentiful back there so mullet seem easy to come by which is often the hard part about tarpon fishing in the off season. Today we had a tarpon trip and we went back there with our bait. Loads of tarpon just about as far as you could see! We ended up hooking 7 I think and landed 4, and also caught a couple big sharks and a nice tripletail. We even spent the last hour trying for a big snook so we likely could’ve had a few more tarpon bites had we stuck with that but my anglers each caught a couple and were good with that. Anyways as mentioned it looks like we may have a really good September. That was a good month for me last year and its nice being off season you really get it to yourself back there. I don’t have much on the books but I’ll be taking some booking in September and Capt. Stephen will be available as well. We’ll of course be sharing fishing info and bait so you’ll be in good hands regardless of which one of us takes you out. But a 3/4 day will often do it and we like to hit it early departing at 6AM. If you want to give it shot give me a shout and we’ll make it happen.
Capt. Rick Stanczyk
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